Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

Zevien and Henrith arrived at the center of the ground with a twenty-meter distance between them.

Henrith was the shorty of the class. He had the lowest height, 5.4ft, and a round chubby face.

"Get ready. Five, four, three…," Touma started counting, and once he reached zero, the battle began.

Zevien was ready as he internally cast First Vehemence, Somatic Anger as a purple aura enveloped him and increased his physical strength and also used Fourth Vehemence, Somatic Sadness internally to invoke [Despair Aura] around him.

*Swoosh..*

Henrith shot two spiky vines towards Zevien, but Zevien dashed forward to dodge one and side-stepped another vine before chopping it.

With his superior reflexes and speed, Zevien dodged some seeds shot by Henrith as well and arrived right beside him before punching him.

Henrith was also fast despite being slightly chubby as he put his guard on with his hands. However, Zevien's punch was empowered with his magic.

*Smack!*

-46

Despite guarding, Henrith lost 46 points and got pushed five meters away. After that, he felt a bit shaky and had negative thoughts as if he was despairing. Quickly shaking his head, he uttered, "Blood of Dreadscar."

Zevien was once again dashing toward Henrith after punching him, but when he was just one meter away from him, his eyes changed as a dark flower with dark green patterns materialized right in front of Henrith and released two petals toward Zevien.

Zevien's eyes and body both moved fast as he jumped over the petals with his current superhuman strength due to his spell, Somatic Anger, and aimed a kick toward Henrith's head while in the air.

Henrith's eyes showed despair as the aura of Zevien was affecting him, and he turned sluggish; because of that, he couldn't react promptly, and the powerful kick hit him in the head.

-79

"Winner, Zevien!!" Touma announced before a glint passed through his eyes.

'Why didn't he use his A-rank normal spell, Exploding bullets? With it, he could've won the fight using that spell directly after punching Henrith. He should have practiced it in his magic labyrinth if what he said was true.

'Also, he used two abilities from his awakening spell, and both were internally cast. I guess I did the right thing by sending him a message to visit my office after classes are over. Something is wrong with him.'

…

After Henrith and Zevien returned to the group, Sophia's and Warmos's match started.

Sophia won with just one spell attack after blocking the first attack of Warmos, which was the Spinning Wind Blades ability from his Wind Matrix awakening magic spell.

Sophia's awakening magic was related to earth and metal as she had both defense and attack. She had awakened Forgon's Terra Firma magic labyrinth. It was a pretty famous one due to an existing 1st class magician having the same magic labyrinth as her. Unfortunately, that magician was an enemy since he belonged to country Karhan, an enemy of Country Lopax.

"Don't worry, Warmos. You just failed to make the correct decision regarding your magic spell sequences. If you had planned ahead, you would've had a chance to win," Touma said with a smile, "your Asinshin of Wind magic labyrinth is pretty good from the records I read about it. Next time when you go into your magic labyrinth, try to learn a magic spell called Wind Ranger in it."

"Wind Ranger?" Warmos was surprised and excited both, "although I know that we can learn different magic spells from our magic labyrinth, how do I specifically learn that spell?"

"There were four instances recorded that says you have a chance to gain conceptual inspiration of that spell after killing grade-0 beasts, Wuffer Tiger and Peliok Sparrow."

Sophia pouted and said, "you only advised Warmos. That's unfair."

Touma wryly smiled and shook his head, "I remember about that particular magic labyrinth due to an extensive research I did about it."

"Why?" Warmos asked with a curious light in his eyes, "why has Touma-sir researched about it?"

"Because I have fought against an enemy in field war who had the same magic labyrinth, and that Wind Ranger spell was troublesome once mastered to a very high level. She had upgraded her Wind Ranger spell from tier-0 to tier-3."

"Who won?" Zevien asked curiously, "since Touma-sir fought against her, then…who won the fight?"

"I won," Touma said with a smile before pointing at his crippled leg, "however, because of her, I lost this leg."

"But why didn't Touma-sir recover that leg? I am sure there are tier-5 magic spells and even magic potions to cure that leg," Sophia asked with doubt.

"Because I didn't want to, hahaha," Touma-sir said with a laugh, "anyway, enough about that. Let's start the next match."

Zevien felt that there was some profound reason behind it, but it was not wise to further ask about it when the person in question didn't want to talk about it.

Afterward, Erica and Michiru arrived at the center of the ground. This was the last match.

"Touma-sensei. Before starting, I want to say something," Michiru said with her cute face. She had white skin stone, dark orange wavy hair, and was 5.9ft.

"What?" Touma asked as he raised his eyebrows.

"Umm…as you know, I am learning sword arts from Master Jornish, and my magic labyrinth is also related to sword magic. I… I still can't perfectly materialize a sword with my awakening magic, Silver Sword Tomb. So can I get a regular sword weapon?"

Instead of directly answering, Touma looked at Erica, "what do you say? If you want, then I can make an exception."

Erica licked her lips and nodded with a sharp smile, "fine. It will be fun this way."

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